Category: Awards

Campaign have released their annual ‘School Report’ listing the top 100 UK agencies as ranked by Nielsen. We are thrilled to see that Happy Hour are now ranked number 48, up from 55 last year.

The league table puts us amongst some of the most recognisable names in advertising and it shows a rise in smaller independent agencies and production companies that are making the list.

2016 was a difficult year across the industry, political and economic uncertainty and a changing media landscape lead to a lot of the traditional advertising structures changing. We saw a lot of agencies moving their production in-house so competition in the production sphere was even more fierce.

Nicola Tyler, Head of Commercials at Happy Hour explains, “As a full service creative production agency, we benefit from being able to work directly with clients from brand planning & conceptual development right the way through to delivery. 2016 saw us deliver some really exciting – and effective – work for our clients and we’re really proud to see that being reflected in our boosted position in the Top 100 UK Agencies listing. It spurs us on in 2017 and we look forward to working on even more engaging ad campaigns for our clients, both old and new.”

Speaking of last year’s work, here’s a quick snapshot of what we got up to:

If you’re looking to boost your marketing and reach new audiences then get in touch. From TV and Radio advertising campaigns to corporate film and social media videos, we love helping brands tell their stories.

Happy Hour are thrilled to announce the latest award win for our recent feature film Kicking Off. Last week it scooped up two prizes at the Oxford International Film Festival winning both the Best Production and Best UK Film award.

We are honoured to have been nominated alongside some fantastic productions, the full list of nominees and winners can be found here.

This marks the second time Kicking Off has been recognised by a film festival, with it winning Best British Feature Film at Raindance last year.

If you still haven’t seen it yet it’s available to rent or buy on iTunes and in major UK supermarkets, it’s also available on most Video on Demand services.

Grand Prix and two Golds at the DMA Awards 2011, for Indicia and Happy Hour Productions

Bristol based Happy Hour Productions, a leading film & commercials production company, helped win 3 awards at this year’s Direct Marketing Association Awards, including the DMA Grand Prix Award – the top prize at the industry’s leading awards ceremony – with a series of online corporate films for Very.co.uk.

The online viral films, produced by Happy Hour Productions, were an integral part of the ‘Work it Baby’ campaign for Very.co.uk, which also won Gold awards for Best Retail and Best Integrated Campaign.

‘Valuing Everyone’ – a 7 minute animated internal corporate video produced for Nationwide Building Society, picked up Gold in both nominated categories. In addition, it went on to win the final Grand Prix Award at the end of the evening.

The IVCA (International Visual Communications Association) Awards were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, on the evening of Friday 30th March 2007. The IVCA Awards are recognised internationally as marks of excellence for effective business communication in corporate video, live events, interactive media projects, business television and websites.

We are delighted to announce that Happy Hour Productions Ltd won the following awards:

Brief: To create a video promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. To avoid ‘talking heads’ format used in previous Diversity videos for Nationwide. To prompt people to think about the feelings of colleagues and how issues may effect them.

Client: Nationwide Building Society

A day of interviews with staff willing to discuss their particular issues. This covered issues ranging from disabilities, sexuality, sexism, age discrimination and racial awareness.

From there, we modelled and developed characters to suit each person, whilst editing and trimming the dialogue to create our story.

With several weeks of intense animation following that, we found ourselves with a true gem of a production.